Monday 13th October 2014 Isles of Scilly Bird Sightings

Highlights from Monday’s log:

Short-toed Lark – 1 St. Agnes and 1 on the airfield.

Richard’s Pipit – 1 on Tresco.

Rose-coloured Starling – 1 Bryher.

Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 Bryher.

Wryneck – 1 St. Martin’s and 1 Porth Mellon.

Whooper Swan – 4 on Tresco..

Black-necked Grebe – 2 Tresco Channel.

Red-breasted Flycatcher 1 Rosehill and 1 St. Martin’s.

Red-breasted Merganser – 1 Tresco Channel.

Snow Bunting – 3 on Peninnis and 1 on the airfield.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 6 on St. Mary’s, 5 on Tresco, 2 on St. Martin’s and 1 on St. Agnes.

Firecrest – 7 on St. Mary’s, 1 on St. Agnes and 1 on St. Martin’s.

Spoonbill – 1 Green Island, Samson and then on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Short-eared Owl – 1 Gugh.

Wigeon – 2 Tresco.

Shoveler – 2 Tresco.

Great Northern Diver – 1 in The Roads.

Little Grebe – 3 Tresco.

Manx Shearwater – 9 past Kettle Point, Tresco.

Merlin – 1 St. Mary’s, 1 Trescnd 1 Samson.

Golden Plover – 5 Peninnis and 1 St. Martin’s.

Jack Snipe – 2 Lower Moors, 1 Tremelethen, 1 Porth Hellick, 2 Tresco, 1 St. Agnes and 1 Bryher.

Bar-tailed Godwit – 2 Tresco and 2 Samson.

Common Sandpiper – 1 Pelistry, 1 Watermill and 1 Garrison.

Arctic Skua – 1 past Kettle Point, Tresco.

Great Skua – 6 past Kettle Point, Tresco and 4 from the Scillonian.

Mediterranean Gull – 2 Porthcressa and 2 Tresco.

Tree Pipit – 1 Tresco.

Black Redstart – 1 Old Town and 1 St. Agnes.

Whinchat – 2 Higher Moors and 1 Tresco.

Ring Ouzel – 1 St. Agnes and 1 Bryher.

Fieldfare – The first of autumn was 1 on Bryher.

Redwing – 1 Newford Duck Pond, 1 Trenoweth and 1 St. Martin’s.

Spotted Flycatcher – ! Garrison and 1 St. Martin’s.

Brambling – 2 Newford Duck Pond.

Reed Bunting – 1 Porth Hellick, 1 Lower Moors, 2 Tresco and 1 Bryher.